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be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.
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The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world....There is naked Nature, inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray.
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A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!
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Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.
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The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
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Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.
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When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.
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We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.
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Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?
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Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old return to them. Things do not change we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
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Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.
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The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter
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Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
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Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
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